Linotype-machine.



PATENIED SEPT. 8, 1907 P.'T. DODGE. LINOTYPE MACHINE. APPLIUATI ED OUT. 26, 1906 S-SHEET 1 No. 865,086. PATENTED SEPT. 3,-190'7.

. P. T. DODGE.

LINOTYPE MACHINE. APPLIOATIOQ II'ILED'OOT. 2a. 1906.

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.UNITED srn'rps PHILIP T. DODGE, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNOR TO MEBGENTHALERT LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LINoTi'rPE-Mriomnn To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PnILrP T. DODGE, of the city of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Linotype-Machines,

. of which the following is aspecification.

' nocted for simultaneous adjustment.

. I preier to employ a mold having one end of the slot formed by alongitudinally, sliding liner, and to combino therewith an ejector Consisting of two longitudinal blades or fingers, one of which is movable laterally in relation to the other, so that they may be adjusted at different distances apart corresponding'to the yarious lengths of the mold, and I prefer to adjust the mold liner by. means of a movable guide, in which one of the ejector blades or fingers is carried. Molds adjustable in length are, however, known in various forms,

and it is to be understood that an adjustable mold of any suitable type will be combined with a variable liner of any appropriate construction, and-that it may be connecteddi'rectly orthrough intermediate parts,

provided the adjustment of the mold: is necessarily accompanied by a corresponding adjustment of the ejector.

, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my mechanism embodied inconnection with the ejector, mold and mold-carrying wheel oia commercial linotypo machine, one side of the wheel and the cap of the mold being removed to expose the other parts to view. Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-section on the line 2 2 of the preceding figure, with the mold cap and the outer side of the carrying wheel in place. Fig, 3 is a perspective view showing the mold with. its parts eparated. Fig. 4 is a view of the sliding liner.

Referring to the drawings, A represents an up ght intermitingly rotated wheel or disk, and B the s ted mold secured rigidly therein. In the form shown, the mold consists of the body portioirb, the cap portion b, the guides or arms 5 connecting the cap and body, and the two liners b and b seated between the cap and body and forming the ends of the slot or mold cell in which the slug or linotypo is cast, as usual. The liner b is free to slide endwise in order to'vary the length of Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed October 26,1906. Serial No. 340,770.

Patented Sept. 3, 1907.

the slbt existing between it and the liner b and the consequent length of the slug produced in the nnichine.

The liner may be guided in any suitable manner; for example, by a rib 5 formed thereon, as shown in Figf l, at one end, and arranged to slide in a corresponding groove in the body of the mold.

The ejector consists of two parallel blades or fingers (l, C, connected at their rear ends to the horizontal slide D by which they ,may be projected forward through the mold in order to expel the slug therefrom. The lower blade 0 is mounted in a stationary guide a, while the upper blade C is mounted in a vertically movable guide 0, mounted on a'vertical post 0?, which I is in turn supported at its end s in studs 01' projections on the horizontal slide E, having an arm which carries the mold wheel A, as usual.

The upper ejector guide 6 is formed with an operating han'dle s and with a pivoted latch c, which ongages a vertically notched plate 0 These devices admitoi the guide 0 and the blade 0 being raised and lowered at will, so that the distance between the outer edges of the blade 0 and G will be equal to the length of the mold and of the slugs which are, for the time being,,

produced in the machine.

To the upper ejector blade C .I secure the finger or projection 0, arranged to enter anotch c formed for the purpose'in the rear edge of the sliding liner b asshown I in Figs. 3 and 4. When the ejector slide D moves forwarli, this projection, enters the notch in the liner in the manner shown in Fig. 1, so that ii the liner blade 0 be adjusted-upward or downward, it will carry the liner b with it. In other words, the liner and the blade will be raised and lowered simultaneously, and thus the ejector and the mold adapted to operate one with the other whatever the length of the line produced.

When slugs of moderate length are to be cast in'the and when slugs ol extreme length are required, I substitute therefor a liner slotted as shown at b Fig. 4, so that it may straddle the end guide b and move outward at one end beyond the end of the mold body.

I believe it to be broadly new in the art to connect or combine an adjustable ejector and an adjustable mold in any manner or by any means which will compel their corresponding adjustments.

I lay no claim herein to the ejector consisting of two relatively adjustable blades or fingers, this being the inv entidn of another.- o

. Having described my invention, what I claim is:-

1. In a linotype machine, a slotted mold va iable in length, on ejector variable in width, and connecting means to insure like adjustment 01' lbs mold and ejector.

-2. In a llnotype machine, a mold variable in length, an ejector variable in width, and common means the ejector and the mold.

for adjusting 90 mold, I employ a solid liner, such as shown in Fig. 1,

3. In a llnotype machine, a mold provided with a slotted liner, an ejector blade, a movable guide for the latter, lflenns combined with the ejector blade for eifeetlng the longitudinal adjustment of the liner.

4. In a linotype machine, :1 mold having a longitndin'al liner, ln combination with the adjusting means movable v transversely into engagement with the liner at the rear,

and thereafter movable in the direction. of the length of the line: to cause the adjustment of the latter. "5. In a liuoi'ype'machine, in combination with the slidtwenty-second day ofOctober, 1906, in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

' I'IIILII 1. n'onon.

Witnesses:

F. M. Eounns'rox, 

